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Show 112 • 1870 O. C. Marsh, paleontologist, leads expedition of Yale students to hunt for fossils in Bridger and Uinta Basins. Marsh makes several subsequent trips to the area. 1871 John J. Critchlow becomes agent at Uintah Reservation. 1871- 1872 Prospectors Philip Arnold and John Slack perpetuate the " great diamond hoax" claimed to be in Daggett County. 1872 George M. Wheeler leads expedition to make topographical maps for the Army. Brown's Park and the Uinta Basin are included. 1872 John Wesley Powell leads an expedition down the Green River. 1873 Pardon Dodds establishes a ranch in Ashley Valley. 1874 Dr. John Parsons establishes ranch and ferry in Brown's Park. This ferry may have been that run during the 1880s and 1890s by Albert Williams, kdbwn- v*. familiarly as the " Speckled Nigger." 1876- 1877 Several white families settle in Ashley Valley. 1878 John Jarvie establishes ranch, which comes to include a store, post office, and cemetary in Brown's Park. It becomes a regular stopping place for travelers. A ferry boat was run here from ca. 1881 to ca. 1909. 1878 Non- Utes are permitted to establish ranches in Dryfork area. LDS ward is organized in area and called Mountain Dell. 1878 LDS branch is organized at Ashley. Post office is . built; discontinued in 1899. 1878- 1879 First school for white children is held in Ashley. 1879 Ashley Central Canal started ( in present- day Vernal). 1879 Meeker incident in Colorado excites Utes and settlers in Uinta Basin. The latter build forts in Vernal and on the Green River ( Burton Ranch). 1879 A post office is established at the Uintah Valley Agency ( Whiterocks). 1880 Ashley Upper Canal is started. 1880 W. G. Reynolds builds a grist mill in area of present Maeser, which was so named about 1903. |